AFST-231 : Women and Development in Africa

This course is a study of African women's traditional and contemporary roles in Africa's social, political and economic development; identifies paradigm changes in women's economic, social and political roles and participation and the sources of these changes over historical time: study post-colonial African women's national and regional movements; studies African women's involvement in international and regional bodies such as the United Nations and its specialized and regional agencies and other networks to effect changes in general African general development paradigms and women's role therein.